Anthony Bourdain slams Trump, won’t eat in Trump’s D.C. restaurant

Reality TV star and bon vivant chef Anthony Bourdain said Monday that he will be boycotting Alessandro Borgognone’s forthcoming sushi restaurant at Donald Trump’s D.C. hotel.
“I will never eat in his restaurant. I have utter contempt for him, utter and complete contempt,” Mr. Bourdain, who has won multiple Emmy awards for CNN’s “Parts Unknown,” told Eater in an interview published Wednesday.
Bourdain also criticized chef David Burke, who opened BLT Prime at the newly opened Trump International Hotel after chef Jose Andres backed out in protest of Mr. Trump’s controversial comments about illegal immigration, The Hill reported.
“I mean, I never had the highest opinion of him in the first place, but I guess he’s the last person in this life I should look to for principles,” Mr. Bourdain said regarding Burke. “It’s not helpful, that sort of thing [opening in a contentious hotel]. I’m not asking you to start putting up barricades now, but when they come and ask you, ‘Are you with us?’ You do have an option. You can say ‘No thanks, guys. I don’t look good in a brown shirt. Makes me look a little, I don’t know, not great. It’s not slimming.’”
Mr. Bourdain said he feels like he knows Mr. Trump personally after decades living in New York City where the president-elect built his business empire.
“I don’t think he’s a good person,” Mr. Bourdain said. “I’ve seen Donald Trump say things one day, and then I saw what he did the next. I’ve seen up close how he does business.